THE FAN – My Story:

The Fan

What started as purely an innocent foray into the worlwide web / twitter to be more specific, lead me into the the doorstep of Lluviafm (previously known as lluviafmradio). Little did I know that that initial visit would evolved into something I have never thought would become a daily ritual for me.
I had been in search for a radio station that plays the music of someone whose career I had been following for a number of years and has released an (first) album after becoming the first runner up of a reality singing show in the U.S.A.
Twitter was the source of many news and whatever you wish to know; who’s who in the entertainment industry, politics, arts, sports and anything one can think of. Since I have an account in twitter, I already hold the key into the chaos and excitement of the social media, one in which I would never have wanted myself get entangled with; and oh boy, I got myself so entangled with that I don’t even know how to untangle myself out of it!

My days start and end in twitter. The search consists of only two (2) keywords; The Song and The Singer. After weeks of searching; online/streaming radios and what not, I came across one tweet about a Song being at the top of the chart by the Singer I was looking for, on a radio station in a small island called The Canaries. I did not pay so much attention at first thinking it must be one of the many I have encountered in the past, a hoax. After seeing the same tweet for a couple of days more, I decided to investigate and eventually have me clicking on the supplied link.
I have two intentions to do upon entering the home page; look for the top list and to vote. I found the list, but sad to say I was unable to vote. To this day, I still am laughing at my stupidity for not being able to figure out how to send/post my vote. Read everything, opened/searched all the links, but never found anything that will show me how to. My persistent was rewarded a few days later while sitting at my desk working on a project. The simple click of the enter key on the keyboard completed the action I was doing and it dawned on me that it must be the missing action I have to do in order to send that vote I so wanted to make. I have studied the pattern of voting by following one of the regular voters during those days that gave me the idea how many times I am allowed to vote by the hour. For awhile I voted anonymously. I had every intentions not to let anyone know of my identity

Listening to lluvia del desierto by Enrique Rodriquez was an accident that gave way to the eventual decision I made to use my tweeter name (FB account too), but not until I saw one desperate tweet for help. I have never listened to any of the top chart shows during the early weeks, but have already decided what my next step would be. In reality I have never tweeted except in general occasions such as Easter Sunday, Christmas and other holidays. Truthfully, I have never directly responded to any tweet at all, but tweet I did that I would help, and from that moment until today, I am keeping true to those words I made months ago.
During the ensuing days/weeks we played games to gain additional points for our favorite artist during lluvia del desierto with E. We also gained allies during those games as others, who happened to be around those two hours with E, observed and eventually got into the excitement, scrambling for answers any which way we can find them. Those points we won gave us the cushion/strength to go on with our hunt to put our favorite artist to the top of the chart every week.
It was also during those weeks that we named lluviafmradio the “Blujay Radio Station.” The reason was simple, our fan club is called “Blujays” after our favorite artist we fondly called “Jay” and her favorite color which is “Blue” and that the radio station was playing her songs more often. E seems to be helping us a lot too in order for us to win more game points, giving hints here and there. One day, he relented and put up that red banner sort of acceptance to our constant demand that it really is a Blujay radio station. What a great time we have then and we could only breath easily by Friday after the top 10 show was over when we get our favorite artist on top